Here's Why Boots On The Ground Might Actually Be Obama's Best Option In Iraqhttp://www.businessinsider.com/boots-on-the-ground-are-obamas-best-option-in-iraq-2014-6/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:04:51 -0400Rick Berger and Robert Carusohttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bb3131eab8ead21f3445aaLeigh CoteMon, 07 Jul 2014 19:45:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53bb3131eab8ead21f3445aa
Hello, "WE" have silent Aircraft with out soldiers that don't have to be present to take care off this job!! When we have a President with a asylyus name Hussein which is "Muslim" in a country he came from and to this day whom do we have as a President of The United States of America?? Whom is "Barack Obama"? We have someone here that has Know Military Experience what so ever!!??http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a218006bb3f7060d6c6f1banarchteacherWed, 18 Jun 2014 18:51:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a218006bb3f7060d6c6f1b
"Boots on the ground" is a disingenuous sanitized way of describing more American men and women slain in a war of senseless attrition. The war criminals in the Bush administration lied about the pretexts and reasons for their preemptive, illegal and unconstitutional invasion of Iraq, aided by the disinformation and propaganda by regime stenographers in the establishment mainstream media to hoodwink and bamboozle the hapless American electorate. The lies and dissembling concerning the war of aggression in Iraq have continued by the murderous drone-master Obama and his cohort.
Here are several vitally important online articles regarding US imperial policies in the Middle East that attentive readers may have missed.
In particular note the detailed maps putting forth the strategic formation for a new Middle East under the hegemony of the US and its Saudi and Israeli partners. What is going on presently has long been planned:
The Engineered Destruction and Political Fragmentation of Iraq: Towards the Creation of a US Sponsored Islamist Caliphate;
Was ISIS’s Plunder of Mosul an Insider Job?;
Plans for Redrawing the Middle East: The Project for a “New Middle East;”
Resurgence of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Fuelled by Saudi Arabia; and
Al Qaeda: The Database.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a2082c6bb3f77b4f6c6f1bBobboWed, 18 Jun 2014 17:44:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53a2082c6bb3f77b4f6c6f1b
@James, your statement is like saying America was doing OK before black folk received freedoms and the ability to vote, etc. The Sunni's are repressed by their Shia gov't. Keep in mind that it was only 120 years ago that the Ottoman Empire was divided up into the countries we know now; done mostly by the English and French. Iraq largely has 3 groups of people who have been at each other much longer than the US has been around. I'm not even so sure that ISIS is the bad guy here. It seems that they want their own region within the middle east, just like the Kurds in the north.
Will starting dialog with ISIS help? Perhaps. Do we even know what they want? Let's not jump the gun here.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539f4cf86bb3f74e21726c05PredictionMon, 16 Jun 2014 16:00:56 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539f4cf86bb3f74e21726c05
If gas prices spike to $5 or $6 a gallon, we will have Financial Crisis, Round II.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539e6a82ecad04ec4f176aa2jstorng365Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:54:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539e6a82ecad04ec4f176aa2
al-Maliki does not care about the Sunni and he does not care about Iraq. He can rule from Basra. ISIS could not be effective unless Anbar was already in revolt. The Iraqi army did not flee from Mosul because ISIS had 800 fighters in front of them. The (Shia) army fled because there were 2 million Sunni behind their lines. The Sunni will no longer tolerate the government in Baghdad. The last people we need to support are the Shia militias who are coming back from Syria. The only people that need our support are the Kurds.
Iraq and Syria are fake countries. Their boundaries were drawn by the French and British after world war one. The boundaries are being redrawn on tribal and religious affiliation. You can't stop this. People will throw off the yokes of their oppressors.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539dbcca69bedd5511176aa0Chris MallorySun, 15 Jun 2014 11:33:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539dbcca69bedd5511176aa0
So, which of these nations has a navy or air force with the ability to land troops in the US? A sane immigration policy and closing our borders would do more to protect us than all troops we have overseas. We invited the 9/11 terrorists here and we keep importing more 3rd world savages every day.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539d17e7eab8ea6d0ea4271fGDSat, 14 Jun 2014 23:49:59 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539d17e7eab8ea6d0ea4271f
You are absolutely right!
Berger and Caruso, you are both now private first class in infantry division.
Pack up and be ready at 0600 tomorrow.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539c704d6bb3f737520d71ecAlligator BreathSat, 14 Jun 2014 11:54:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539c704d6bb3f737520d71ec
Great question.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539c6fef69bedd32383e53b0Alligator BreathSat, 14 Jun 2014 11:53:19 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539c6fef69bedd32383e53b0
Why are you on a business site? Your lack of general knowledge is overwhelming. Please, please buy and use a dictionary. Oh, and take a writing class. Thanks.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539c6f1eeab8ea7c35a42723Alligator BreathSat, 14 Jun 2014 11:49:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539c6f1eeab8ea7c35a42723
Are you including the entire middle east? Does that also include Israel?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539c6e25ecad049854a4271cAlligator BreathSat, 14 Jun 2014 11:45:41 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539c6e25ecad049854a4271c
So, you are admitting in the end that your initial idea was faulty?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539baca2ecad04251d19c0ccchristopher.s.hansen.1Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:00:02 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539baca2ecad04251d19c0cc
I have heard about vehicles with jammers that can disrupt radio-controlled improvised explosive devices but that's it.. And they obviously don't shut down the IED..http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539ba9256bb3f79f18b68717christopher.s.hansen.1Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:45:09 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539ba9256bb3f79f18b68717
"Their total strength in Iraq falls in the range of 2,000-2,500, generously"
Seriously how could you possibly know that?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539ba23f6bb3f7046fb68718DMZFri, 13 Jun 2014 21:15:43 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539ba23f6bb3f7046fb68718
you are ignoring the reality of the region & assuming that US military might is all it takes; winning a battle or two is one thing, holding hostile territory, thousands of miles from your home base, for years is anotherhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b81ae6bb3f78302b68715Buffalo SpringfieldFri, 13 Jun 2014 18:56:46 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b81ae6bb3f78302b68715
Not my boots...http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b7b72ecad04791819c0cdjamesxxxxxxxFri, 13 Jun 2014 18:30:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b7b72ecad04791819c0cd
Totally false.
Iraq was doing 'ok' until ISIS came in.
ISIS could be routed relatively easily.
It's not irrational to understand that it takes such a long time to rebuild a country.
US forces should have been slowly withdrawn, not pulled out at once such as they were.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b7b14eab8ea9256b8bbc5jamesxxxxxxxFri, 13 Jun 2014 18:28:36 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b7b14eab8ea9256b8bbc5
This is false.
The Iraqi government is capable of governing, barely.
They are not capable of security facing the insurrection next door.
Limited strikes by drones + some limited ground support would keep the state of Iraq relatively intact.
Then Iraq could go about whatever it was going to do for the next 10 years.
Iraq is nothing like Vietnam.
That said: I suspect Obama will not commit 'boots' because who the hell wants to die in this mess? The 1st American casualty will be politically costly.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b79b4eab8ea124cb8bbc5don't forget the hot sauseFri, 13 Jun 2014 18:22:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b79b4eab8ea124cb8bbc5
barry is all talk, he'll end up sendin a few token cases of mre's,but unless folks are real comfortable with $5-6 gas and a depression better put 2nd mardiv on a ship, if al sorrounds Baghdad forget $200 oil,you'll be talkin $300 a barrel fasthttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b733cecad04067919c0ccartxFri, 13 Jun 2014 17:55:08 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b733cecad04067919c0cc
At this point, these religious nutters won't stop at anything... after they're done killing all their muslim enemies, they admittedly say they'll be coming for the US and Europe next...
I propose to form the Coalition To Nuke The Entire Middle East Into Oblivion, who's with me??http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b6ca4eab8ea1120b8bbcbsoundsgoodbutcluelessFri, 13 Jun 2014 17:27:00 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b6ca4eab8ea1120b8bbcb
"The U.S. can fly electronic warfare platforms that will shut down any improvised explosive devices that threaten U.S. personnel. "
Uh no. Else that would've been done and we wouldn't have all these useless MRAP vehicles now being brought home to our local police forces. Has this author even spent an hour reading on what a clusterf fighting in Iraq was?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b6a6a6bb3f7cf25b6871fDMZFri, 13 Jun 2014 17:17:30 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b6a6a6bb3f7cf25b6871f
you are both terribly mistaken and have ignored not only history, but also reality
the MENA is a quagmire composed of tribes/cultures/religions and associated mentalities that we in the "West" do not understand
it is not our place to be there, militarily, unless, of course, you support an occupation force of several hundred thousand troops & an appropriate number of aircraft
oh, and how would you propose we pay for this?
let "them" figure it out on their own, even if that means letting them kill each other until few are left; we can only do so muchhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b59946bb3f7586c3123a2The third Vietnam War, wootFri, 13 Jun 2014 16:05:40 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/539b59946bb3f7586c3123a2
a conventional army hanging around a foreign country divided by religion or politics is what got the US in trouble in Vietnam, Iraq II, Afghanistan. The US military has no problem killing lots of guys. But killing guys without a political end game is futile.
it looks like the authors haven't learned the lesson yet.